“that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”
1 Samuel 8:20 (WEB)
Context Reading
18You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.” 19But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us, 20that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.” 21Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Yahweh. 22Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.” Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Everyone go to your own city.”